Gualicho Gualicho
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gualicho 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (91 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Gondwana · Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Gualicho (named in reference to the gualichu) is an enigmatic genus of theropod dinosaurs. The type species is Gualicho shinyae. It lived in what is now northern Patagonia, on what was then a South American island continent split off from the supercontinent Gondwana. The fossils were found in the Huincul Formation, dating to the late Cenomanian-early Turonian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, around 91 million years ago.
What we know
- Named by Apesteguía et al., 2016.
- Fossils found in South America and Gondwana.